Assistance with living expenses
Are you unable to cover your living expenses from your own financial resources? Under certain conditions, you can apply for financial support.
Course description
These financial benefits are possible:
- relevant standard benefit
- reasonable costs for accommodation and heating
- additional needs if necessary (e.g. for food)
- additional, legally defined needs (one-off needs)
- Benefits within the framework of education and participation (BuT) for children and young people up to the age of 25 (such as school equipment allowance, costs for communal lunches, costs for school trips lasting several days, participation allowance and more)
Special contact points
- Deaf Munich residents should contact the social services for the deaf.
- Munich residents without their own home should contact the Central Assistance Centre for the Homeless.
People who are able to work or who are permanently fully disabled or have reached the age limit between 65 and 67 cannot receive assistance with living expenses. The following benefits are available for them:
- for persons capable of work: Citizen's allowance
- for persons with a permanent full reduction in earning capacity and for persons who have reached the age limit: Basic income support in old age and in the event of reduced earning capacity
Prerequisites
Persons who are not permanently fully incapacitated for work and cannot support themselves from their own income or assets.
Required documents
- Identity card or passport
- Proof of
- Income
- Assets
- Accommodation costs
You can download the application forms here as a describable PDF file:
- Basic application part 1 - SGB XII (basic data sheet) (PDF)
- Basic application part 2 - SGB XII (PDF)
- Basic application Part 2 SGB XII - Annex Additional persons in my/our home (PDF)
- Basic application part 2 SGB XII - Annex for dependants (PDF)
Please complete the form/appendix "Other persons in my/our home" if you do not live alone.
Please also complete the form/appendix "Dependants" if you have dependants (i.e. parents, adult children and spouses - including those who are separated or divorced) who do not live with you in your household.
Please sign the application forms (basic application part 1 and part 2), as well as the forms "Other persons in my/our home" and "Dependents" and submit them in paper form to your local Sozialbürgerhaus together with the necessary documents.
Homeless Munich residents should contact the "Zentrale Wohnungslosenhilfe" (Centralised Assistance for the Homeless) at the Office for Housing and Migration. It is responsible for the entire city area.
Questions & Answers
Full reduction in earning capacity within the meaning of the statutory pension insurance exists if the earning capacity is less than three hours a day under the general conditions of the labour market for an unforeseeable period of time due to illness or disability.
The benefits and conditions are almost identical. You can find out everything else about this at your social welfare centre.
People who are not permanently unable to work receive assistance towards living expenses. This includes, for example, people who receive a temporary disability pension. Persons who are permanently unable to work or who have reached the age limit in accordance with § 41 Para. 2 SGB XII (identical to the age of entry for an old-age pension) receive basic income support.
An entitlement to assistance with living expenses exists if the following asset allowances are not exceeded with the existing assets (savings, shares, property, etc.):
- 10.000 euros for each adult or single minor
- 500 euros for all other persons